Local digs

Via Steve Rubel, learned of and became quite excited by Blogdigger's new local search feature. It's a great idea, but still has a ways to go -- the top result for Dallas and/or 75201 told me that the guys from Hypergene were in Dallas. And they were -- several years ago.

Others had similar experiences.

To pull local blogs, layered over a good topical filter. That would be mind-blowing.

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UPDATE: In the comments, someone from Blogdigger points out that Hypergene's tags still indicate a Dallas locale, and that they're still improving their filters. Perhaps they should put a beta tag on the site.

Comments

[Greg Gershman]

Hi, I'm Greg from Blogdigger. Local is still in beta, we'll be improving the results and filtering over the next few weeks.

As for the Hypergene site, their meta-tags still say they're in Dallas (do a view source). Doin' the best we can. ;)

Thanks!

[Shayne Bowman]

Thanks Greg. We missed that last year when we moved. Meta-tags have been updated on the blog. Was wondering though, doesn't blogdigger work on rss feeds, and not HTML meta tags?